It was organised by the Community Trust and there were many questions to Eustace about his career, aspirations and that sort of thing. There was a question which referenced the owners and Eustace said he had never spoken to them (I seem to remember Tomasson saying something similar) and that his dealings are with Waggott and Suhail.

Someone suggested that Ohashi can play in Dolan's role and I agree with that. His prodigious work rate and ability to find pockets of space would be a huge improvement. For me Dolan's race is run as a Rovers player. His insistence on pirouettes, step overs and flicks coupled with poor decision making is more than enough for a spell in the bench. One good game in five simply isn't good enough.

I said after Gueye's performance at Watford that he needs a spell in the under 21's. I was at the Q&A with Eustace last week and he was asked about what he wants in the January window. He said a goal scoring striker. I think he is aware of the limitations we have up front but, apart from the options of Leonard and Tyjon is hamstrung. Personally I have mentally prepared myself for another window of disappointment so expect nothing with these wretched Punekars.

And meanwhile, our best right back (in my opinion) is going to stagnate in the under 21's. Eustace seems to have a blind spot when it comes to playing home grown youngsters. Gueye coming on ahead of an in form Leonard yesterday was simply the wrong decision.

Pears dealt with a venemous first shot well from Campbell and didn't have a chance with the second. Rather than criticising Pears what about the players who let Campbell have two free shots. Pears is the absolute least of our problems right now.

That was an eye opener as we were dominated all over the pitch by a well organised Sheffield United. They were everything I think we should aspire to be. Big, strong, organised and a clear tactical plan to execute. To be truthful 2-0 flattered us and the fact I thought Pears was by far our best player speaks volumes. That said our play was so pedestrian it made us easy to play against. Not just pedestrian but at times too predictable especially in defence and midfield. The sideways and backwards passing was never going to hurt Sheffield but we persisted with it and so often barely got out of our own half. Perhaps one of the biggest surprises to me was that on Sheffield's corners Travis was picking up Soutar. Now I might be old fashioned but surely against their two biggest players two of our biggest players should be marking them. Our set piece coach should answer for that one. Also every player back for their corners is poor. Three times in the second half we cleared the ball from corners only for it to come straight back with their players having all the time and under no pressure. That wasn't the reason we lost though. Eustace has more selection problems for Wednesday and the non functioning attacking side of our game needs to be addressed. I would start Harry Leonard although Ohashi was one of the best of a bad bunch today. I also sensed that Cantwell is becoming frustrated. Several times he made runs to get in behind but wasn't seen. His body language told me everything. And I'm becoming disenchanted with Gueye. What does he offer? The hope I have for Wednesday is that Stoke aren't Sheffield United but Eustace has to earn his money here. We have to be more progressive in possession and score first. At least if we are going to sit in it would give us something to defend.

What a great story.

I thought that but without checking I'm sure the ticket ordering page will be £13.

Our of our twelve league matches so far only five have been 3 o'clock Saturday kick offs. And in November we only have one 3 o'clock game out of the six scheduled. On Tuesday last week there were 31 games shown live by Sky. I'd love to see the viewing figures for them.

Tickets have gone on sale for the Portsmouth home game and there is a clear error which hasn't been corrected for some time now. The copy and paste hasn't worked too well but the £3 is for under 12's in the padded seat area of the JWU which is considerably cheaper than an under 12's holders anywhere else in the ground. I wonder what would happen if somebody went to buy tickets and insisted on paying the advertised price. JACK WALKER UPPER CENTRE £32 £27 £22 £17 £3

I'm sure the £10 allowance isn't true. It was a flippant remark after I said I saw five Rovers players at Knutsford Services on the way home last night. I did explain that they had been dropped off there by the coach and were waiting for their lifts to arrive.

It's free for season ticket holders but you will need it with you. Otherwise I think it's £5 for adults and £3 for concessions.

I fixed it Ian. God knows how but I pressed a few buttons relating to cookies (I still don't know what they are) and it worked. if you ever need and technical help just contact me 😉😁

Agreed. All this new fangled technological assistance they now have and we still see the same errors. I stood behind a linesman at an under 21 game and the nonsense they come out with over the comms was eye opening. Things like 'he's onside' and 'goal kick' when it's bloody obvious would have driven me crazy. The use of the flag used to tell me.

I said I was a luddite! Would it be Google?

I know it's a different era now and I never had any communication equipment but I would have been embarrassed to be effectively overruled by a linesman who was at least fifty yards further away than me.

Thanks. I tried to but couldn't get past that page with the error message to log out. I deleted BRFCS from my bookmarks and tried to save it again but if I try and even get onto it the same message appears. Hopefully it can be resolved simply!

The coach had dropped the five of them off and they were waiting for friends or family to pick them up. I'm guessing they live in South Manchester. In general I take your point but Watford is a bugger to get to by air or rail.

That's it in a nutshell Ian. A few years ago that wouldn't have been given as it clearly wasn't deliberate but the muddied waters created by blazers with no feel for the game have killed that. Interestingly I didn't think the referee actually gave it. The delay was almost certainly because he was told over the comms. My initial suspicion was it was the fourth official but I spoke to several Rovers players at Knutsford services last night and they were told it was the far side linesman who I thought had the worst view of the four of them. I'll find out for certain this week.

Morning. Since the maintenance work over the weekend I haven't been able to access the forum using my Kindle. I can only get on through 'use private tab' which means I have to log on every time. Is there anything I can do to just get normal access like I used to on my Kindle. PS please factor in that I'm a luddite when it comes to technical tho be particularly blurb. just to add I get a message saying '400 Bad request and Request Header Or Cookie Too Large nginx

I would play him in the under 21's for a few games to see if Downing's coaching is having any effect on his game. We simply can't afford him occupying a place in the match day squad particularly now Leonard is fit and a better option.

If he isn't doing it now given his age then I really don't think it can be coached into him. He shows no instinctive traits that a Championship striker should have.

His movement in the box is poor. He was static on the two incidents you have mentioned from yesterday. Good strikers work between the posts when anticipating a cross. He makes himself easy to mark with his lack of movement.

Playing well and losing only goes a really small way to making me feel any better than I did after Coventry and Plymouth when we were awful. Missing chances undoubtedly cost us today as the Watford players and the crowd were decidedly edgy and had we scored first I have no doubt we would have won. We started really well, in the front foot and with some intensity. The chances we missed seemed to give Watford a bit of belief and the changes their manager made certainly improved them as they attacked with some real pace. Defensively we were ok as we were in the defensive midfield area but from an attacking point of view we were poor. The honeymoon period is over for Weimann and Gueye with the latter really looking out of his depth. His movement in the penalty area was Gallagheresque. At least Ohasi has clever movement and looks to run in behind, quite simply be is a far better option in my view. Hopefully with Leonard now looking fit and sharp there is more competition as Ohashi and Gueye have almost been guaranteed game time as the only two fit forwards we have. The penalty they got is the right decision for me. It's a modern day penalty following the plethora of edicts the referees have to factor in. This one definitely falls into the 'unnatural position' category and I'm sure we would have screamed for it had it been at the other end. I'm not saying I agree with the way the referees are told to judge this type of incident. When I was an active referee the only criteria when dealing with handball was whether or not it was deliberate. Our away form is becoming a concern and it's a conundrum that Eustace has to come up with a solution to.

Although I haven't seen anything official it appears we have a new set piece coach. On each corner for and against last night Eustace and Gardiner sat down and Ben Benson was shouting instructions and gesturing from the technical area. I have noticed several Premier League clubs doing the same this season.